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Show B0LSHEII GIVE REPLYTO NOTE Statements of America ano Japan Not Based on Facts, They Say. Deny Czecho-Slovaks Are Menaced by Austrian and German Forces. AMSTERDAM, Aur. 24. Tho Russian Rus-sian Bolshevik government has replied to the Japanese-American message to the Russian people explaining the motives mo-tives of intervention in Siberia. The version of the Russian reply appearing in the Tageblatt of Berlin, as telegraphed tele-graphed from Stockholm under date of August 22, says: "The American and Japanese governments gov-ernments have addressed a message to the Russian people in connection with the landing of their armed forces on Russian territory. Both governments declare their armed intervention was dictated by the desire to eomo to the aid of the Czecho-Slovaks, who, it is alleged, are menaced by Germans and Austriaus. . "The Russian federal republic feels compelled to makd this declaration: Claim Note a Blind. "The statement made by the American Ameri-can and Japanese governments is not based on accurate information. The Czecho-Slovak detachments are not menaced by either Germans or Aus-trians. Aus-trians. On the soil of the Soviet republic re-public the battle continues between the Red Soviet army, created by peasants and workers on 'one hand, and Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak detachments, in concert with landowners, the bourgeoisio and counter-revolutionaries, on the other. "In this battle, the workmen and peasants are defending the revolution, which is endangered by a counter-revolution, aided and abetted by the Czecho-Slovaks. Deception Charged. . "The Soviet government is convinced con-vinced that its enemies are only attempting at-tempting to blind proletariat elements of the population, and that they seek to deceive them by fostering in them the belief that Germans and Austrians are' menacing the Czecho-Slovaks. "Should, however, the grounds of this attack on the Soviet republic be really those stated in the Japo-American message, mes-sage, the Soviet government suggests that the governments exactly formulate their wishes in the matter. (Signed) "TCIIITCHER.X, "Foreign Minister." |